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GEORGE W. L. MARSDEN, OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF, AND EDGAR H. ANDRESS, OF NEWARK, NEWV JERSEY.

DRY PAINT COMPOSITION;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 34:1,761, dated May 11, 1886.

Application filed June 15, 1885. Serial No. 168,785. (Specimens) To aZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. L. MARsDEN, of \Vilmington, in the county of New Castle and State of Delaware, have invented a new and Improved Dry Paint Composition, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My composition consists of the following in gredients, combined substantially in the pro portions stated: Red or white lead, sixty-five per cent. pulverized mineral fiber, thirty-five per cent.

The above ingredients are to be thoroughly mixed and reduced to a proper consistence for application by the addition of turpentine and linseed-oil combined in the usualproportions.

The term mineral fiber, as employed in the above formula, is generic, and covers all such substances as mineraLwool, slag-wool, rock-wool, silicate-cotton, ground glass, &c.

By the use of such a composition I obtain a paint that is highly impervious to the action of the atmosphere and all other destroying elements, and consequently a paint that is well adapted for use on all outside surfaces.

I do not limit myself to lead, as any other GEORGE L. MARSDEN.

Witnesses:

DAVID J. WILsoN, J OSEPH W. VANDEGRIFT. 

